Word: acte
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Running Water. "Logic," Winston Churchill once quipped about the House, "is a poor guide compared with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who declares that "my first duty is to the sovereign who appointed me," his second to the palace, and his third to doing what he can for M.P.s...
Thurs., Dec. 10 Christmas at the Circus (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). James (Gunsmoke) Arness and Sidekick Dennis Weaver act as hosts during a live hour in Miami with Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus...
McDonald later proposed that the President's board of inquiry, which was set up under the Taft-Hartley Act, recommend the terms of a settlement; he promised to settle "within the framework of the board's recommendations." The President turned down the suggestion in favor of another try at collective bargaining. In high moral tones that stressed the nation's welfare, both sides pledged once more to forge ahead for a settlement-then went right back to bickering...
Watch the Boss. Much of the bickering was over a campaign by both sides to win the Steelworkers' secret vote on industry's last offer, required by the Taft-Hartley Act some time between Jan. 6 and Jan. 21. Out from the eleven negotiating steel companies went letters and brochures to each employee setting forth the industry's "final" offer (it can still make another), which was actually made fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30). Dave McDonald called it "a propaganda offer aimed at confusing the Steelworkers," and the union's official paper, Steel Labor, warned workers...
NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. This Is My God, Wouk (3) 3. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 5. For 2? Plain, Golden (5) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7) 7. The Armada, Mattingly (6) 8. Groucho and Me, Marx (8) 9. Candidates 1960, Sevareid 10. The Longest Day, Ryan...